remorseful - Story 116460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a wound. John spent hours staring at the screen, replaying the data, desperately seeking an error, a mistake. He felt a hollowness, a sense of having failed at something important. The silence in his apartment was broken only by his own ragged breaths. He found himself picking at his food, unable to taste anything. He struggled to maintain focus, the world around him a blur. He felt as if he had let someone down, even though he knew he couldn't have prevented this.

Emotion: remorseful

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.57 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.09

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion remorseful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 remorseful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the remorseful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the remorseful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.656
`L`	0.580
`悔`	0.463
`remorse`	0.416
`been`	0.398

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.444
`(!)`	-0.309
`имеется`	-0.289
`oldukça`	-0.287
`😍`	-0.285